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Beyond handouts
Oped, Postbag, Published on 12/10/2024
» Re: "Plan won't end poverty", (BP, Sept 30).
Justice at stake
Oped, Postbag, Published on 29/05/2024
» Re: "Yingluck upbeat on democracy", (BP, May 23).
An answer to plastic
News, Postbag, Published on 08/06/2020
» Khun Buttercup's suggestion that responsible people recycle plastic waste is commendable, but the fact is little of the plastic waste Joe Citizen collects and sorts is recycled.
New life for THAI
News, Postbag, Published on 26/05/2020
» Re: "THAI tries to stick the landing" (BP, May 18).
Nixing votes isn't fair
News, Postbag, Published on 15/03/2019
» First was the Constitutional Court's dissolution of the Thai Raksa Chart Party. Now, the Electoral Commission is weighing in with a plan to disallow the votes of voters who had been unscrupulously "led" or "influenced" into voting for certain candidates.
Chemical menace
News, Postbag, Published on 06/03/2019
» We read in "Watch what you eat", (Life, March 5), that "eating different types of fruits and vegetables helps cut the risk of taking in too many chemicals".
More carriages needed
News, Postbag, Published on 13/02/2019
» It is gratifying to read about the new transit lines being built in Bangkok.
Think of the tourists
News, Postbag, Published on 09/02/2019
» Surasak Glahan in his Feb 7 commentary, "Justice system still shackled by politics", hit the nail on the head. Thailand as we all know has a bad human rights record. I can only blame the people who are handling this case, which I am sorry to say will harm Thailand in the long run, with a loss in the number of tourists. I would like to know the number of Bahraini tourists versus Australian tourists coming to Thailand. I would dare say there are more Australians.
Democracy a must
News, Postbag, Published on 06/02/2019
» Re: "Regime fails on corruption", (Editorial, Feb 4). Imagine that! Despite their most earnest promises, corruption has not improved under the unelected politicians, whose autocratic rule rejects the democratic norms of transparency, honesty and respect for persons that can alone combat corruption! Following May 22, 2014, no other outcome was ever credible.